# What's the earliest movie that you liked that you still like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817 "2014-01-03T17:43:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/101 "2014-01-16T06:10:32Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > **Gulliver’s Travels (1939)** If this is the same one I’m thinking of, it was a full-length animated feature produced by the Max Fleischer studios (which also did the early Popeye and Superman cartoons). I saw it on TV when I was three or four, and it made a huge impression on me, especially the part where Gulliver rounds up the warships and drags them back to shore. Imagine my surprise when I saw it again at the Sunday Kindercinema at UW–Milwaukee in 1988 and realised it was NOT a live-action film, which is how I had remembered it! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/102 "2014-01-16T06:19:33Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > ??? No mention of **This Island Earth?** I caught this on cable by accident one Saturday afternoon two summers ago. I must have seen it at some point in the distant past, because I kept recognizing bits and pieces of it, but I have absolutely no recollection of doing so, which is kind of odd. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/103 "2014-01-16T08:47:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I caught this on cable by accident one Saturday afternoon two summers ago. I must have seen it at some point in the distant past, because I kept recognizing bits and pieces of it, but I have absolutely no recollection of doing so, which is kind of odd. It was the subject of the [MST3K movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000:_The_Movie), which, for a long time, was the only version of MST3K I had ever seen as the series wasn’t available locally or on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/104 "2014-01-16T18:27:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I caught this on cable by accident one Saturday afternoon two summers ago. I must have seen it at some point in the distant past, because I kept recognizing bits and pieces of it, but I have absolutely no recollection of doing so, which is kind of odd. Actually, I think the movie is atrocious even with the MST3K riffing but since his username is \*\*CalMeacham, \*\*I kinda expected him to add the shout out to his namesake. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/105 "2014-01-17T18:40:09Z")
High Noon The African Queen They Drive By Night - this one scared the crap out of me when I saw it at the ‘buck a carload’ drive-in as a small kid. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tamairamarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@tamairamarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tamairamarie)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/106 "2014-04-06T17:49:40Z")
i was watching tv one day and this movie came on it was about these people doing a science experiment on whon can sleep for some months and wake up first unafortunatley they slept all the way into the future and the world was totally diffrent it had trash everywere ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/107 "2014-04-06T18:53:03Z")
For me, it’s a tossup among: \*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Mothra\* The above were the first films I ever saw at a theater and were a double-bill; _Forbidden Planet_ _War of the Worlds_ (1953) Seen on TV, probably well before the first two. In particular, the monster and the Krell’s underground complex in _FP_, and pretty much every single thing in _Mothra_, blew my tiny little mind and instilled a fascination with filmed SF that continues to this very day. ---
**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/108 "2014-04-08T21:18:35Z")
Obviously it is generation / thematic thing question. For me: The Goonies, Flash Gordon, Superman I - III, The Thing … Movies from my early teens that are hard to change channel when stumbled on … Although earliest movies would be probably Tom and Jerry cartoons … And I do remember Logan’s Run. Gave me nightmares. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/109 "2014-04-08T21:33:05Z")
**Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid**. Saw it enough times in the theatre that me and my childhood chum memorised all the lines, and acted them out later in our back yard! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/110 "2014-04-08T21:48:47Z")
_The Three Lives Of Thomasina_, which I first saw back in 1963 when I was only six years old, will always be one of my favorite movies, ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/111 "2014-04-08T22:09:54Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Saw _The Aristocats_ around the same time and I remember it having a heavy influence on me at the time (I already loved cats, but the movie turned me into a jazz lover (that didn’t really stick) and made me name all my stuffed cats after characters in the movie). I still like it but it didn’t really stand up to the test of time. Do you mind if I tell a story related to _The Aristocats_? Back when it came out I was supposed to take my cousin’s kid, aged 6, to go see it. I’d seen it already and, sorry to say, didn’t care that much for it. But I liked the little boy and was willing to sit through it again. Alas, when we got to the theater it was sold out. Another movie playing was Flash Gordon(rated PG). I’d seen it already and liked it immensely. So I told the kid “Do you want to _ **wait** _, and come back _ **later** _, to see the Aristocats? Or, right _now_, you can see a movie with rocket ships and ray guns and flying hawk people?” Of course I was manipulating him. But he really liked _Flash Gordon_, and when we got home he went around poking people in the back, as Ming the Merciless had been speared by the needle nosed rocket ship. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/112 "2014-04-09T03:56:36Z")
The first movie I ever saw as a kid was the original Muppet Movie when it came out in theaters. Love that movie. _Movin’ right along…_ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/113 "2014-04-09T04:03:55Z")
The first movie I remember being awestruck by was _Fantasia_. My parents must have brought me to see one of the theatrical re-releases. It’s still amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/114 "2014-04-09T05:21:24Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s _Forbidden Planet._ ---
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/115 "2015-04-06T18:57:23Z")
The earliest movies that I can remember seeing that I still like include: “Lawrence of Arabia” “Mary Poppins” “Diamonds are Forever” “2001: A Space Oddyssey” All of the above I saw in theaters. “Lawrence of Arabia” was the only one I didn’t see when it first came out. It must have seen a few years after its original release – it was the second film in a double-feature with a Matt Helm movie. I remember being in the back seat of my parents car with a blanket, and my parents thought I was asleep, but I wasn’t. I can vividly remember some of the most beautiful desert scenes. I was spell-bound. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/116 "2015-04-06T19:21:32Z")
_The Day the Earth Stood Still_ _On The Beach_ _Fail Safe_ _Dr. Strangelove_ _Seven Days in May_ How’s that for a happy childhood? It’s been “Klaatu barada nikto” from the get-go. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/117 "2015-04-06T20:10:39Z")
In 1951, when I was three years old, my parents took me to see the Betty Hutton version of _Annie Get Your Gun_. I loved this movie, and I sang songs from it for years thereafter. Not long ago I watched it again, and I still loved it (even though parts of it were racially cringeworthy). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/118 "2015-04-06T20:23:57Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > ??? No mention of **This Island Earth?** Despite my DoperName, it’s not one of my favorites. As I’ve explained many times, the book is much, much better (although it still has its problems). They basically jettisoned almost the entire book except for the opening section where Cal builds the interociter – and they mange to screw that up, too! Building the interociter is supposed to be a test of Cal’s abilities as a scientist and engineer, so giving him the schematic for it – as they do in the movie – is pointless. In the book, Cal dopes out how it all goes together from the descriptions and specifications in the catalog he got. He also has to build new parts The book also describes other tests sent to other engineers (electrical, mechanical), which those engineers fail. and when it’s all over, and he sees the face or Jorgasnovara (not “Exeter”) on the Interociter, he is called in to work for the group, but his work is NOT finding new technologies and materials (for a group that has interstellar travel!) The interociters actually have a usefuyl function. The title makes sense (which the movie doen’t relate). There are no Mutants and no planet named Metaluna, and Jorgasnovara’s homeworld (out of a LOT of inhabited planets) doesn’t get bombed into becoming a sun. Nevertheless, I have a copy of TIE, which I do watch every now and then, out of nostalgia ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/119 "2015-04-06T20:33:06Z")
The original 1949 version of The Lone Ranger, with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. I didn’t see it until the mid-50s. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817/120 "2015-04-06T22:42:58Z")
I’m sure I saw several Disney movies as a child on the big screen, I definitely remember ‘Sleeping Beauty’, it was just entrancing! I saw it on TV not a month ago. Still love it…When I was a pre-teen, they would drop us off at the local movie palace for lesser Disney movies, pirate and fantasy movies, and things with Haley Mills, still like to watch all of these to this day. When I was 11, I saw ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and I was stunned, I was blown away. I demanded to see it again. And to this day it is in my top 10 favoritest ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-earliest-movie-that-you-liked-that-you-still-like/677817.md?page=7)